Hand Drawing Lessons for Artists!

These hand drawing lessons are important pieces of knowledge for emphasizing body gestures on your characters as well as creating dynamic poses. So follow along to create convincing hand drawings of your own!

It is an essential skill that promotes dynamic action in your digital paintings as the hands are capable of: showing the viewer to the object it is holding; directing to the person or scenery it is pointing at; or a sign language that suggests an emotion or idea.

Before you even begin these hand drawing lessons, always make sure you have a basic understanding of the hand itself and the infinite possibilities of poses that can arise from it.

It is also important to note that the hand drawing lessons you learn here will give you an important foundation for drawing feet as well.

hand drawing lessons

This is because all the major anatomy groups associated with the hands can be directly translated to the feet.

With the articles provided, here's how to paint hands on this site:

Current lessons available

	How to Draw Hands Learn how to draw hands by breaking it down into smaller sections like its proportions and its range of movements.
	Hand Sketches After learning the structure and proportions of the hand, we can start a few hand sketches by learning the four different types of pivot points found on the hands.
	Drawing Foreshortened Hands Even with unlimited possibilities of hand positions, breaking down the hand into simple cylindrical shapes and focusing on the flow it creates will help you with drawing foreshortened hands correctly.
	Female Hands When drawing female hands, a lot of what defines a female hand is the type of poses the hands are in. Aside from that, just make the fingers slimmer than it is compared to a male hand.
	Baby Hands Drawing baby hands is something that we need to pay extra attention to because it tests your abilities to use the current adult hand proportions that we have talked about so far.
	Elderly Hands Drawing elderly hands can be extremely fun because you get to emphasize all the construction and anatomy bits you have learned so far about the hands.
	Clasped Hands Now that you are familiar with drawing one hand, it is time to integrate the other one together and start drawing clasped hands.
	Paintings of Hands All your hard work in learning the basics will prepare you well when you need to do paintings of hands as you will be using your sketching skills to make things easier.
	Drawing Feet In this lesson, you will look at the foot proportions, similarities to the hands, and various poses you can try as you learn the art of drawing feet.

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